Case sensitive logins
Why does owasp recommend using case insensitive logins ?
Make sure your usernames/user IDs are case-insensitive. User ‘smith’
and user ‘Smith’ should be the same user.
What’s the security aspect of it?
Category Archives: user-names
Is it okay to use your real name on social media? [closed]
Is it okay to use your real name on Social media? parents say using your real name is NOT okay. I need answers to this. (Kinda the reason why my name is called its me mario)
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Program claiming a dedicated user to run itself
A desktop running Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS seemed to go slower than usual. top showed that freshclam, the database-update utility for the Unix anti-virus program, was working the hardest.
freshclam –version shows the version is from yeste… Continue reading Program claiming a dedicated user to run itself
Security issues if I post username in comments on my website?
When users try to log in to my web application they have two options: their username or their email including password, both of them are unique.
When the logged-in user tries to write comments in the public comment box, shall I post his/… Continue reading Security issues if I post username in comments on my website?
How user’s name can be displayed before disk is decrypted, when FileVault is turned on? [closed]
As far as I understood, FileVault provides full disk encryption functionality. What gets me puzzled though, is that once computer (with disk encrypted using FileVault) is turned on – username is displayed, before disk is decrypted. Thus, i… Continue reading How user’s name can be displayed before disk is decrypted, when FileVault is turned on? [closed]
T-Mobile Suffers a Data Breach, Again
T-Mobile has begun notifying customers of a security breach that might affect an undetermined number of them, possibly revealing their names and addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, rate plans and features, and billing information. Wireless carri… Continue reading T-Mobile Suffers a Data Breach, Again
What’s the real name policy? [on hold]
I want to know more about the real name policy and if I can use scrappymatt on google. Facebook uses the real name policy but I’m not sure about google
Is it safe to use my email as username on social media?
Should I name my username on social media (etc.) the same as the email address that is linked with the account? For example using “yourname” as my Instagram username when my Gmail is yourname@gmail.com.
Is this safe to do or… Continue reading Is it safe to use my email as username on social media?
Is revealing a PC account user name bad?
Typical computers with modern operating systems require log-on accounts with a user name and a password. Is it dangerous to reveal the user name of the log-on account to the public?
My research:
I have found these articles on Information … Continue reading Is revealing a PC account user name bad?
Is it insecure to not let a user choose their own username, and base the username on a known pattern?
I have recently changed banks and my new bank has a benefit scheme (discounts etc.) that has its own website and different login details to my online banking (I think the benefits system is administered by a third-party).